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MSA SC 5496-51592
Fled from Slavery, Caroline County, 1834
Sources:
Archival Sources -
Caroline County Court (Land Records) Book M, 1817-1820, pp 307-8.
Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857, p. 196.
James Wood Poplar Grove Collection, Special Collections 5807, Series 4, Series 13.
GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL (Letterbook) 1834-1838 (4 pages).
"A Slave Case," Dorchester Aurora, 23 January 1837. Special Collections, MSA SC 4856.Newspapers -
"The Slave Case in New Jersey." Baltimore Sun, 20 April 1838.
"Annals of Kidnapping: An Exhibition of Slavery in New Jersey." Liberator, 10 January 1835.
Books -
Brothers, Thomas. The United States of North American As They Are; Not As They Are Generally Described: Being A Cure for Radicalism. Longman: London, UK (1840).
New York Committee of Vigilance. The First Annual Report of the New York Committee of Vigilance For the Year 1837. Piercy & Reed: New York (1837).
Culbreth, Thomas. A memoir of Thomas Culbreth: (1786-1843) delegate in the General Assembly of Maryland, representative in the XVth and XVIth Congresses of the United States and clerk to the Executive Council of Maryland. - Maryland Historical Society Catalog.
Benjamin Drew. The Refugee: A North-Side View of Slavery. Boston: John Jewett, 1854. - "Rev. Alexander Hemsley," pp. 32-33.Internet Sources -
Ancestry.com. 1820 United States Federal Census, Caroline County, Maryland, District Not Stated, p. 5.
Ancestry.com. 1820 United States Federal Census, Caroline County, Maryland, District 2, p. 4.
Ancestry.com. 1840 United States Federal Census, Murderkill Hundred, Kent County, Delaware, p. 15.
Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census, Slave Schedule, Caroline County, Maryland, p. 4.
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